Re: [SI] Reminder: 14 days to go for Street Photography

On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:13:18 -0500, Bowser <> wrote:
: Time to stretch our skills and hit the streets! The new mandate,
: "Street Photography," can provide big challenges, but the results can
: be well worth it. If you aren't clear on what constitutes Street
: Photography, well, visit this site for starters:
:
: http://www.street-photographers.com/
:
: Some good advice here, as well:
:
: http://photo.net/learn/street/intro
:
: Please not the following rules for this mandate:
:
: No excessive post processing: what this means is that street shooting
: is supposed to reflect reality, so excessive processing, like adding
: or removing elements, using Photoshop filters to excess (adding grain
: is OK, solarizing is not), and adding effects like starbursts are not
: acceptable. Adjusting for exposure, color contrast, B&W conversions,
: and adding grain to simulate old-style street shots is OK. I believe
: there's enough lattitute in this mandate to offer sufficient
: opportunities without having to resort to "painting" an image. This
: mandate is designed to test your photographic skills, not your
: Photoshop skills.
:
: Due: December 30th, 2012
: Start Date: November 22nd, 2012

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On 12/7/2012 11:49 AM, Robert Coe wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:13:18 -0500, Bowser <> wrote:
> : Time to stretch our skills and hit the streets! The new mandate,
> : "Street Photography," can provide big challenges, but the results can
> : be well worth it. If you aren't clear on what constitutes Street
> : Photography, well, visit this site for starters:
> :
> : http://www.street-photographers.com/
> :
> : Some good advice here, as well:
> :
> : http://photo.net/learn/street/intro
> :
> : Please not the following rules for this mandate:
> :
> : No excessive post processing: what this means is that street shooting
> : is supposed to reflect reality, so excessive processing, like adding
> : or removing elements, using Photoshop filters to excess (adding grain
> : is OK, solarizing is not), and adding effects like starbursts are not
> : acceptable. Adjusting for exposure, color contrast, B&W conversions,
> : and adding grain to simulate old-style street shots is OK. I believe
> : there's enough lattitute in this mandate to offer sufficient
> : opportunities without having to resort to "painting" an image. This
> : mandate is designed to test your photographic skills, not your
> : Photoshop skills.
> :
> : Due: December 30th, 2012
> : Start Date: November 22nd, 2012
>
> Huh?? December 30 is 24, not 14, days from the 6th.
>
When I was giving technical tax lectures to accountants I would
sometimes start with a comment like; A accountant is someone upon
hearing that a girl was 38 24 36, would say: "she's a 96." I could
reliably count on someone correcting my "arithmetic." At that point I
would claim I proved my point.
I guess the same principle applies to engineers. ;-)

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